Font of Glory

[merovingian_backup]

How many of you have used the "World Wide Web" thing?

I ask for a reason. You see, I sometimes use it, and I found a web site recently. It had the most dignified, noble font ever. It brought me to weep.

It was a serif-havin' font, a little bit like Courier or Times New Roman. But what a difference! Maybe a pixel off here, a pixel added there, but the difference was awestriking.

I don't even remember what the web site was about. It was a typical personal website. But the author did specifically ask that no one steal her special font. Hundreds asked for permission; I don't think anyone would be so crude as to steal it without permission. Standing in the face of nobility makes us nobler in our deeds, in the same way that being in a public bathroom makes us far more likely to wash our hands.

I would share the URL, but I don't think I'm worthy.

Comments

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[cityratbuddy.livejournal.com]

Courier & Times are both examples of fonts WITH serifs. Those aren't san serifs.

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Just what I was going to say.

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[cityratbuddy.livejournal.com]

I find Ted's fallibility to be comforting. It explains why he didn't unscreen my double dactyl comment from the other week, even though I had submitted a perfectly valid well formed double dactyl. Such amateurism is more of a trademark of his clone.

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

You submitted a single line of dactyllic dimeter, not a full higgledy-piggledy poem. I realize the term can refer to either, which is why it was a link.

Ruthlessly!

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Um, but, in any case. Fixed!

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[cityratbuddy.livejournal.com]

You're too good to me. Thanks for validating my meager poetic "skills."

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Thanks for using the word "abacinate" when others might balk!

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

Clearly my font-knowin' skills haven't rubbed off on you.

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Fixed.

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Maybe I meant that the serif was very saintly.

[cityratbuddy.livejournal.com]

*bursts into tears*

[cityratbuddy.livejournal.com]

*accepts tissue*

It was nothing short of a brusque and improper correction!

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[evan.prodromou.name (from livejournal.com)]

http://wikitravel.org/en/San_Serriffe

Re: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Serif

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Clearly, this is yet another example of Wiki vandalism. Like that Colbert elephant thing.

Everyone knows San Serriffe was renamed Courier Island after the Great Vowel Shift led to popular overthrow of the constitutional monarchy in power.

[beautifulpyre.livejournal.com]

I would definitely steal it. I'm a bad person, after all. In fact, I stole this very font I'm typing in as we speak.

You're guilty by association!

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

If you had seen this font, your spirit would be lifted to a new moral level.

[skyschemer.livejournal.com]

How many of you have used the "World Wide Web" thing?

The what?

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

It's like cyberspace, but more so.

[datan0de.livejournal.com]

How many of you have used the "World Wide Web" thing?
You should make an LJ poll asking this question! I'll bet it wouldn't be too hard to get Fox News or MSNBC to quote the results as fact, too! :-)

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

You make an LJ poll asking this question.

I should link to your poll.